Bass rumbles in the background of Massive Attack MC Daddy G's mobile phone, and the gentle coo of frequent collaborator and reggae legend Horace Andy is barely audible over the din. "I'm looking at [Andy] as you're talking," Daddy G says excitedly, yelling over the noise.

What was the first album you bought with your own money?
Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme, but let’s not put it all on me. Plenty of people were into the Ice Man. It’s not like Vanilla Ice sold ten records, and I’m one of the ten people that bought it. We all got fooled. I just happened to be at the age when it was the first album I bought.

TV on the Radio singer-guitarist Kyp Malone has revealed plans to release a solo album this fall under the moniker Rain Machine. But that's not all -- he's also taken the opportunity to come clean about all sorts of surprising stuff, including his aesthetic aversion to his own name and his amenability toward "LOL"!

[Editor's note: For our May issue's summer festival section, SPIN spoke with a number of artists on the festival circuit, from Gaslight Anthem and Metric to Doves and Jane's Addiction. Among them is neo-soul songstress Erykah Badu. Here, she tells us about her favorite moments backstage and waxes on music's power to bring people together.

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys have been announced as the headlining performers for San Francisco's second Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, which is scheduled to hit Golden Gate Park August 28-30.